Albany’s Trinity Church rises again…

After I posted my photograph series chronicling the demolition of Trinity Church, I received an e-mail from William Leue. He wanted to rebuild the Trinity Church, and to get the measurements and sizes and colorings and shapes perfectly accurate, he wanted to use my photographs from my flickr site.

We made an agreeable arrangement, and Leue started working.

Over the weekend, I received an e-mail from him. Apparently Phase I of the reconstruction of Trinity Church is complete, and he wanted me to see pictures of his work.

I looked. It’s very impressive. It almost looks like a carbon-copy of the original holy structure, complete with stained glass windows and the like.

As you can see from the picture at right, Leue – who has recreated several other Albany buildings with the toy bricks in the past, including a house-by-house reconstruction of Elm Street’s houses – has built a scale model of Albany’s former neighborhood landmark. This is the first stage of the construction, and features the front and side of the building. By using photographs of what the church looked like in its heyday, he plans to construct the building’s interior to compliment its exterior.

I have to tell you. This is an absolutely fascinating project, and I wish William Leue all the success in the world as he finishes building this church. I love seeing construction projects that take Albany’s landmarks and rebuild them as railroad scale models, or as in the case of William Leue, restore the building with those little plastic bricks.

Which, I’m willing to wager, are probably more structurally sound than the building upon which the church is based.